European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday april 16,1989 suspect denies his group bombed flight 103 from wire reports new York Ahmed Jabril. Leader of a group suspected of bombing pan am flight 103. Denies thai his organization staged the attack that killed 270 people in december. Jabril acknowledged however thai his group routinely used the same kind of bomb investigators say was used 16 blow n p the pan am jumbo Jet. A total of 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground died when the bomb blew the aircraft Oul of the skies Over lock crib Scotland on dec 21. In an interview Friday Jabril said his first lieutenant Hafez dal Kamoni commonly built and used the Lyon of explosive device Hal downed the Airliner dal Kamoni is in jail in West Germany after a police raid in october netted weapons and i rec bombs. Jabril insisted thai his group the Syri an sponsored for the liberation of Palestine general command Bush won t visit Lockerbie Washington a one Day after the me surfaced tic White House said Friday the president Bosh will not Rill Lockerbie Scotland where a Pun am jumbo Jet crashed dec. 21 after being blown apart by a bomb. Administration officials said thurs Day that Bush would visit Lockerbie to thank the people there for pitching in on the Orch and recovery Effort for the victims. But White Hoost press Secretary mar Ita flt water said Friday that it iras Fudd de Bush of oath not go it was an Wea we could t Mirk ill be said. The Stop bad been planned for Early june when Bush was on the Way Bac from a nato Summit in Brussels. Belgium and visits to Italy England and Estgen Muir. The Lack killed 259 people on the jetliner and 11 on the ground. Did not bomb the Airliner. Jabril also denied that his group receives Money from Iran but said he shared Iran s outrage at How the United states accidentally shot Down an Iran civilian passenger plane. "1 Sec now that the incident of the pan am is neither worse nor uglier than the destruction of the iranian Airbus Jabril told Abc news. Both of them Are crimes against civilians whether by the . Administration or by terrorist groups who May have blown up the pan am. They Are equally Barbaric despite Jabril s denials investigators suspect that his group planted the bomb on an unwitting pan am passenger at the Behest of Iran in West Germany however prosecutors said that they have no evidence to substantiate reports that a lebanese american passenger inadvertently checked in the bomb aboard Oie flight. Alexander preen Tel spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s office said the suspected passenger Khalid Jaafar checked two Small soft bags into the plane s cargo hold and not n hard suitcase Prechtel said British investigators had previously indicated a hard suitcase was used to carry the bomb. Reports last week by lbs news an the new York times citing american officials said that Loafer had been Tenta Lively identified As the unwitting earner of the bomb which is believed to have been concealed in a portable radio Cas Sette recorder with a Detonator designed to go off at a set Altitude. News briefs 16th round of base talks in Greece ends in failure Athens. Greece a a 16th round of talks on the future of . Bases in Greece ended Friday without making any Progress a govern ment spokesman said. The talks on a new defense and economic cooperation agreement which began monday stumbled on Greece s insistence that the United slates help Athens solve differences with neighbouring Turkey spokesman Sotiris Kostopoulos said. , negotiators said they Don t want regional disputes wound into the bilateral talks. Greece and Turkey have Long standing quarrels Over seabed Mineral rights military control of the Aegean sea and the War divided Mediterranean Island of Cyprus. -. Issue clouding the talks is Greece s reluctance to extradite a suspected palestinian terrorist Mohammed Rashid wanted by the United. States for the 19s2 bombing of a pan am jumbo Jet Kostopoulos said. The blast killed a japanese teen Ager and injured 15 other passengers. The five year base agreement expired dec. 20.u and crime Accord the United states has 17 months to leave if a new agreement is not reached. The next round of talks is scheduled to begin Early next month. Rocks bottles tossed at soviet soldiers in Tbilisi Moscow a soldiers patrolling the to v. Al georgian capital where 19 pro Independence protesters were killed april 9 were pelted with rocks and bottles news reports said saturday. The communist party daily pravda and the de sense ministry newspaper red Star reported that Tbilisi was Calm during the Day but hat tension still Rose nightly As the 11 . Curfew approached. However pravda suggested Hal the 11 .-6 . Curfew could end soon the reports came after the Southern Republic s communist party and government cad cars were replaced after the 19 people were killed by red troops trying to disperse nationalist proses Ler sunday " nobody and nothing can justify the deaths of absolutely innocent people foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze an ethnic georgian a w Georgia s parly ple num which made the leadership a saturday meeting in Moscow a group of prominent intellectuals including human rights activist Andrei a Sakharov blamed the clash m Tbilisi on Moscow bureaucrats who imposed is Ranger Security measures last approved at the end of july require Advance permission fori meetings and demonstrations and give a special Force attached to the Interior ministry special Power for keeping order at demonstrations. Soviet officials Are conducting an investigation to determine whether Security forces who broke up the demonstration in Tbilisi killed peo ple by bearing them with shovels they had been issued to dig trenches. By r a n sch r i Sti a is Trade f i re killing 2, wounding 24 in Beirut Beirut Lebanon a a 72-year-old Christian parliamentarian was one of two killed and 24 wounded saturday when a rocket hit his apartment Bui Ding in cast Beirut during shelling duels Between syrian and Christian gunners police said. Also on saturday 14 seriously wounded christians were ferried to a French Navy Hospital ship anchored off Beirut As a French humanitarian Mission got under Way. said intermittent shelling duels intensified before Sundown As gunners from both sides blasted Beirut find its surroundings with1.heavy artillery and rockets. Ii. The latest casualties raised the Overall toll to 217 dead and 751 wounded in the civil War Hal erupted March 8 Between Gen. Michel Aoun s 20,000 mostly Christian troops and an Alliance of syrian and druse forces. An italian Tanker the Cochinella with a cargo of diesel Oil was hit by a Shell eight Miles off the Beirut port Al 9 30 ., an italian embassy official said. Italian charge d affaires a lilo Zannucci said the lop deck was damaged but none of the 14 Crew men was Hurt. He said the ship which was heading for the Christian port of Rounich had turned and was heading for was the second italian ship struck by hellfire inthe past week the Tanker Isola a Surro carrying sul uric acid was hit off being on thursday. A police spokesman said the parliamentarian Louis Abu Sharaf was killed when a rocket hit an apartment building opposite his Complex damaging Bolh build the current violence erupted after Aoun ordered a blockade of militia run ports along the lebanese coast preventing the slate Treasury from collecting about $ 100 million a year in customs dues. Soccer from Page 1 " were assured a place in next month s championship game at Wembley stadium. Officially the game attracted a capacity crowd of 54,000. But reports said hundreds More Liverpool fans with out tickets poured through a turnstile Gale behind one of the goals packing on area marked off for inc team followers and crush ing those at the front of the stand. A Gale or Gates were opened or broken and fans came a said the football association s chief executive Graham Kelly. There were too Many fans in the area obviously and they spilled Over. There will be a full investigation. Ii looks a desperate situation Kelly said. "1 am deeply sorry that the Day has ended this was we bad six minutes of football and one and a half hours of absolute one unidentified fan told the bbl people just walked in that Gale and the police just let them Walkin. Liere Are people lying dead there on the floor. It was Choc Zablocki and As people tried 10 get Inlo the front the police tried to Force them Back into the the game was cancelled. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Home Secretary Douglas kurd have asked for a full report on the tragedy. The prime minister said she shared everyone s disbelief at the horror. Maurice Roworth chairman of the Nottingham for est team called for the proceeds from the match to be Given to bereaved families. This is the Saddest Day football has Ever witnessed he said. It is going to take a Long time for football to he said the one thing in saturday s tragedy that offered Consolation was trial once the spectators were made aware of what was happening supporters showed great dignity at a time of great tragedy or. Glyn Phillips said police allowed fans to fill the Middle Terrace or the Liverpool end until they were crammed in like sardines the emergency facilities at the Field were inadequate he said adding thai one oxygen tank Given to him 10 help resuscitate a Man was empty Stuart Mcgeagh who fled from the Liverpool area said it seemed As if it was four deep in dead bodies with people climbing Over Jan. 2, 1971, 66 people died when an Over crowded stairway collapsed during a scottish local soc cer match Between the Glasgow rangers and the Glas go celtic. fifty six fans died on May ii 198s, when a fire engulfed the main stand during a match at Bradford City s soccer stadium in Northern England. The worst soccer disaster on record look place on May 24, 1964, when rioting left nearly 300 dead and 500 injured after Argentina beat Peru on a last minute goal in Lima. Oil from Pacha 1 Prince William sound spokesman Everett Robinson Wilson said. So far 295 dead otters have been counted at an animal Rescue Center but Robinson Wilson said the death toll was Likely to be four times that number on Friday the spill reached the Shore 01 a second National Park raising fears that bears would join sea mammals Birds and dec As casualties of the Exxon Valdez wreck. Oil washed up Friday at the big River area along the Northern i coast of katmai National Park an undeveloped area beside the Shelikoff Strait More than 250 Miles from where the Tanker went aground
